Motivational Quotes

Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

10.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

12.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

13.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

15.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

16.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

17.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

18.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

19.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

20.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

23.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

27.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

28.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

29.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

30.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

32.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

33.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

34.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

35.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

38.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

39.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

40.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

44.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

47.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

49.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.